2019-11-18 18:23
#0
I can remember the hatchet being a one hand item? Or am I wrong??
When did the Hatchet become a two hand item?
Started by Drakelord
· 2019-11-18
· 13 posts
· General Discussions
2019-11-18 19:05
#1
It's been 2 handed since the balanced property was added. Can't remember prior to that.
2019-11-24 08:03
#2
IIRC from talks with the person who introduced me to the game, Hatchets were 1-handed in Beta, maybe a very short time after. But they had been 2-handed for years, by the time I started in March 2003.
2019-11-24 15:09
#3
I started in 2000 and I am pretty sure they were one handed then
2019-11-24 15:26
#4
if Urge is correct, the balance property was added in 2013.
And I have to agree because I know I used to use one handed, when I played before.
And I have to agree because I know I used to use one handed, when I played before.
2019-11-24 16:54
#5
The hatchet has been 2-handed a lot longer than that. My lumberjack is old, pre random resources by several years and I absolutely know hatchets were 2-handed back then. My lumberjack is a chiv swords Ljack and I was very irritated I couldn't use a FC1 shield.
I'm pretty sure Basara is correct.
2019-11-24 17:57
#6
Could it have been when they introduce the Lumberjack Damage Bonus in 2001? Lumberjacking was a tested method used to gain strength quickly. It has been a very long time and I remember when they came out with the bonus and could have sworn that there were 1 handed axe type weps but after training my swordsman I couldn't find one.
2019-11-24 20:15
#7
The war axe is a 1-handed macing weapon.
That's the only axe type weapon I know of that's 1-handed.
2019-11-25 03:18
#8
There are Beta screenshots I've seen where people had a hatchet and shield. so, it was sometime after Beta, but well before AoS.
2019-11-25 09:07
#9
The hatchet was already 2-handed in 1998:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981207042548/http://uoss.stratics.com/arms.htm
This is a snapshot of stratics from December 1998 on web archive
http://web.archive.org/web/19981207042548/http://uoss.stratics.com/arms.htm
This is a snapshot of stratics from December 1998 on web archive
2019-11-26 16:46
#10
The hatchet has been two-handed for a very long time. I have always wondered about that. Because logically, an ax is two handed and a hatchet is one handed.
2019-11-26 21:05
#11
CrazyDave said:The hatchet has been two-handed for a very long time. I have always wondered about that. Because logically, an ax is two handed and a hatchet is one handed.
Exactly!
2019-11-27 15:16
#12
CrazyDave said:Because logically, an ax is two handed and a hatchet is one handed.
Cmon now. We've been wearing the same underwear for 22-23 years, have never used the restroom and shoot fireballs from our fingers. There's just things that aren't logical.